Profile Books imprint: 206 books
Are You Smarter Than A Chimpanzee?
Test yourself against the amazing minds of animals
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Animal science is bizarre and wonderful. At the extreme end of zoology, psychologists are designing personality tests for dogs and logic problems for pigeons. They're giving fish spatial reasoning problems and asking cockatoos to keep a beat.
Now, through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests...
Belles and Whistles
Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains'...
by AQA 63336
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Five years, two million customers, twenty million questions, and now this, the fourth book of texts from AQA 63336, the UK's most accurate text question and answer service. More Brilliant Answers highlights the weirdest, most difficult, strangest and funniest as well as revealing the most popular...
The Forager's Calendar
A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
'He writes so engagingly that it's hard to imagine that actual foraging can be more attractive than reading his accounts of it. ...[This book] is a treasure. It is beautifully produced, designed and illustrated.' - John Carey, The Sunday Times
Look out of your window, walk down a country path...
The Weir Group
The History of a Scottish Engineering Legend
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
In 1871 two brothers, George and James Weir, founded the engineering firm of G. & J. Weir, joining the booming range of industry on the west coast of Scotland. At their Cathcart works in Glasgow, the Weirs produced their own groundbreaking inventions. The most notable of these was the celebrated...
by Chris Mullin
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
All serious politicians are supposed to possess a hinterland, but not all do. Chris Mullin was one who did. By the time he entered parliament he had reported from the wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and tracked down the survivors of the CIA operation in Tibet. He was the author of three novels,...
The Heineken Story
The remarkably refreshing tale of the beer that conquered the world
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Heineken is known all around the world, but few of the drinkers who eagerly watch the foam rise in their glass have heard of the business ploys, marketing tricks and extraordinary characters that transformed the Dutch family business into a global brand.
Taking us on a journey from a small...
Pinkoes and Traitors
The BBC and the nation, 1974–1987
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This compelling account of a turbulent period in the history of the BBC opens at a time of national decline under the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, and ends during Margaret Thatcher's iconoclastic Conservative premiership. The intervening years saw mass unemployment, trade...
by Eliza Manningham-Buller
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
How do we balance our belief in human freedom with the need to defend ourselves against those who believe the use of terror can be justified? Can our handling of security risk and the laws we pass to deal with them distort our response to the threat of terrorism?
In this sobering and remarkably...
It Could Have Been Yours
The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable things
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
From Silvio Berlusconi's bed to Casanova's memoirs (the most expensive manuscript in history), via the Statue of Liberty's nose and an X-ray of Marilyn Monroe's chest, here is a remarkable record of some of the quirkiest, most unexpected and sometimes bizarre possessions that have changed hands in...
The Lion Wakes
A Modern History of HSBC
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The Lion Wakes tells the modern story of HSBC, starting in the late 1970s, when the bank first broke out of the Asia-Pacific region with its purchase of Marine Midland Bank in the US. It follows HSBC's battle to purchase Midland Bank in 1992, the subsequent move of head office from Hong Kong to London,...
On the Fault Line
Managing tensions and divisions within societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Societies in all countries are split by major divisions - or 'faultlines' - caused by differences in race, religion, ethnicity, wealth, class or power. Like geological faultlines, some are plainly evident, whereas others are more concealed and can erupt with little warning.
Violence along faultlines...
Rogerson's Book of Numbers
The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Rogerson's Book of Numbers is a deceptively simple list of virtues, spiritual attributes, gods, devils, sacred cities, dominions, powers, heroes, saints and symbols. It provides a dazzling mass of information for those intrigued by the many roles numbers play - not only in mathematics and science,...
Up Pohnpei
Leading the ultimate football underdogs to glory
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
After one too many late night discussions, football journalist Paul Watson and his mate Matthew Conrad decide to find the world's worst national team, become naturalised citizens of that country and play for them - achieving their joint boyhood dream of playing international football and winning a...